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StumblePublished Thursday, June 19, 2008 | 11:45 a.m.
Updated Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008 | 10:15 a.m.
WASHINGTON — Tough to say which was the lonelier moment in the House last week – when Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio read his new Bush impeachment resolution on a quiet Monday as lawmakers were still flying back to town, or when the clerk was then required to read it into the record on Tuesday night.
Democrats have cut a wide swath around efforts to impeach President Bush, as I wrote last summer. They believe the conversation is not becoming for the party. Leaders have skillfully avoided the topic since taking control of Congress in 2007.
But the Washington Post tells us this morning that Kucinich is undeterred.
After the House voted last week to send his resolution to the Judiciary Committee, essentially shelving it, Kucinich tells the Post he will be pressuring Judiciary to take action. Or he’ll be back on the floor.
Americans tell pollsters they believe the Bush presidency has been a failure. An April USA Today/Gallup poll had 69 percent of respondents saying this. Impeachment polls, though, show a more mixed back.
Kucinich is unswayed. “I cannot understand what the political reason would be not” to impeach the president, he said.
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security".
How sad a commentary on this society, that we can impeach a President for lying about a sexual affair which killed no one and should have concerned no one but his wife, yet we cannot muster the strength to even begin the impeachment process against a President and his cronies, who lied and started a war, which has cost the lives and futures of 10s of thousands of people, both here and in Iraq.
The problem is that the Democrats were involved in some of the bad choices made and they can't point a finger and not have it point back at themselves.
The real question is who was behind the 9/11 incidents. Look at who benefited. We had the Patriot Act and the loss of Habeus Corpus as a side effect....who benefits from America losing a focus on truth? Who benefits from the loss of an inquisitve media?
Follow the money....
You guys should demand that Bush be impeached.
You should not compromise on this.
You should go out 100% on this.
You should not vote for anyone that is not wanting to immediately arrest Bush.
You should stop traffic and go on food strikes.
You should go to Reid's office and never leave until he agrees to this.
It is the sworn duty of every representative to uphold the constitution. To not investigate these articles is a dereliction of duty and makes one complicit in the crimes themselves.
This is the only way to assure a free and democratic future for our country. This is the only way the country will regain respect on the world stage.
No one likes Bush, but who wants Darth Vader (Cheney) to take over for the last few months of a lame duck presidency? Just imagine how much damage the former head of Haliburton could do.
You could go for a 2fer.
If you think Bush and Cheney are so evil then you must do your duty and do not compromise your beliefs!!!!!!!!!!
You should demand that both be impeached at the same time then Pelosi will be president before Hussein gets it.
All it takes is a majority to impeach. I believe Pelosi and Democrats have a majority in the Congress so that should be easy to do.
You start this effort right now.
Start calling Reid's office every day demanding that he take action.
Start calling every member of House as much as possible.
Declare that you will not vote for anybody unless they agree to impeach both of them. You must carry of that threat if you want people to believe you later.
"It is not enough for a people to gain its liberty. It must secure it. It must not intrust it to the keeping, or hold it at the pleasure, of any one man. The Keystone of the Royal Arch of the Temple of Liberty is a fundamental law, charter, or Constitution; the expression of the fixed habits of thought of the people, embodied in a written instrument, or the result of the slow accretions and consolidations of centuries; the same in war as in peace; that cannot be hastily changed, nor be violated with impunity, but is sacred, like the Ark of the Covenant of God, which none could touch and live".
I enjoyed your article on impeachment. Thanks for keeping this a front-burner issue.
That’s what constitutional scholar Bruce Fein and I have been doing with our stage play “I-The Impeachment Trial of George W. Bush.”
Our goal is to create a city-by-city, grass-roots, “bottom up” call for impeachment by getting people to see the play across the country -- to coordinate with “top down” efforts like yours and squeeze Bush in the middle.
We had a great run in San Francisco. Our next production is slated for Olympia, Washington. Would anyone be interested in helping us mount a production in Las Vegas? The synopsis follows.
Richard A. Lasser
Playwright
310 990 5941
“I”
THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL OF GEORGE W. BUSH
By
Richard A. Lasser and Bruce Fein
When Justice John Roberts calls the Senate to order in the impeachment trial of George W. Bush, he unleashes a battle of titans. With everything on the line, the most powerful legal minds in the country lock horns over whether the President should be removed from office for “high crimes and misdemeanors.” As the apparently incontrovertible evidence of Bush’s guilt piles up from witness after impassioned witness, you’d be a fool to bet on W.
But in the second act, the President himself testifies and pulls out all the stops, delivering a speech calculated to tug at our heartstrings, telling us everything that we as Americans want to hear. He correctly indicts a complicit Congress of being just as guilty as he is, while the prosecutor argues passionately for conviction. In the end, it’s up to each individual to decide where the truth lies.
You guys need to hurry up.
Bush only has 7 months left in office.
Better getting going.......
Uhhhh I forgot...why is he getting impeachment for?
Kucinich for president!
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security".